180 gallon tank update

[jfolley67]

Tank is running!! Plumbing is secure and no leaks. Can't believe it. This weekend we will get all the rest of the equipment in order, lights on and cleanup underway....
I have started the aquascaping last night....here is the beginning if you can see it well enough....sorry for the not so great pictures.....but I was excited to share.....

 

[SRT80]

lookin' good. Are you not gonna do a sand bed?

Steve

 

[mamagoose45]

If she's not doing a sand bed, she sure bought a lot of really expensive sand for her girls' sand box at the EBay meeting

 

[crumbletop]

Re: 180 gallon tank update

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10618336#post10618336 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by jfolley67
Tank is running!! Plumbing is secure and no leaks. Can't believe it. This weekend we will get all the rest of the equipment in order, lights on and cleanup underway....
I have started the aquascaping last night....here is the beginning if you can see it well enough....sorry for the not so great pictures.....but I was excited to share...

Awesome!

 

[eyebedam]

You may want to put some eggcrate on the bottom of the tank b4 you get all that rock & sand in the to add a cushion & some stability. Thats what I ended up doing. Its lookin good.

 

[jfolley67]

yep,doing sand this weekend, but wanted to do the rockwork first and sand after to help hold it all in!!!

 

[jfolley67]

thanks for the advice about the egg crate but I used tonga rock to keep it off the bottom and I have the larger pieces supporting. Once the sand goes in, it helps to support the legs as well. I think we are ok....the rockwork so far very nice and open but pieces are tighter than they look....I still have to figure out how I am gonna put the rest of the rock in those areas I have done that have corals on them...so some of it might go in the sump that I have in the tank now if I replace with the larger coral rocks.....this is getting more fun!

 

[waynesworld]

oh ya forgot about that that does wokrk good I totaly forgot that we did that and I was the one that cut it for you.

Wow they say the memory is the first to go I wonder what was the next.